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If you’re still trying to decide who to vote for today, don’t look to your local lawmakers for guidance. Or the governor, for that matter.

I asked whoever I could find yesterday who they were voting for and got a lot of mixed answers.

Rep. David Guttenberg, D-Fairbanks, said he liked John Edwards. But that doesn’t help much because Edwards isn’t in the race anymore. (Guttenberg said he hadn’t picked between the other two.)

Sen. Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, said he liked McCain’s kind of outsider approach but not his stance on Alaska issues. (As far as I know, people think McCain is bad for Alaska mainly because of his stance against drilling in ANWR.) Therriault added that he liked some of the things about Ron Paul, too, but hadn’t made up his mind who to vote for.

Rep. John Coghill, R-North Pole, said he preferred Mike Huckabee but also liked Mitt Romney. McCain was out. “He’s liberal and I’m not,” Coghill said.

Rep. Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks, was the only one who’d decided.

“McCain,” he said, “because he’s good for the country even though he’s bad for Alaska.”

As of yesterday afternoon, Gov. Sarah Palin hadn’t said who she was backing either. She’d narrowed it down to McCain or Huckabee.